Winner Doesn't Take All in Commodities

Besides ennui, and possibly adding to it, January brings a flurry of look backs toting up the winners and losers of another year gone by. When it comes to commodities, though, where you fit on the tally isn't always clear-cut.

The simplest way to assess things is to compare the price for a particular commodity at the close of 2013 with a year earlier. On that basis, surveying 21 major commodities on FactSet, the front-month...